{"id":3913,"date":"2026-03-11T00:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:51:22","slug":"moth-photography-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2026\/03\/11\/moth-photography-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Moth Photography #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years on interest was growing with the first night photos, using a white sheet, and at first a fluorescent tube for light, then a mercury vapour lamp to do the job properly. The camera used was still the FZ30 which did a good job with the close-up photography but the flash synchro speed of a sixtieth of a second was less than ideal for moving moths leading to loss of sharpness. Until stated otherwise, all moths featured are from a native garden with many trees.<\/p>\n<p>Epyxa subidaria is a common moth with a lot of variation, this one is richly coloured.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/retro\/sub.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Males and females of the Dark Leaf Moth, Monoctenia smerintharia differ, male,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/retro\/monocm.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and female.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/retro\/monocf.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Lemon Gum Moth, Plesanemma fucata is another moth with many variations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/retro\/ples.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two more shots of Pterolocera species, lined group, showing the spectacular antennae.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/retro\/ptero1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/retro\/ptero2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In April 2008 there was a large number of Pasture Day Moths, Apina callisto in the paddock surrounding the house. They were difficult to photograph there but one came inside and made the job easier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/retro\/pad.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years on interest was growing with the first night photos, using a white sheet, and at first a fluorescent tube for light, then a mercury vapour lamp to do the job properly. The camera used was still the FZ30 which did a good job with the close-up photography but the flash synchro speed of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/2026\/03\/11\/moth-photography-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moth Photography #2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3928,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natureofgippsland.org\/mothing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}